Mormons: Friendly But Friendless The Mormon blogosphere is buzzing with the release of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. Co-written by political scientists Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell, the book chronicles recent shifts occurring in the U.S. religious landscape and includes some revealing statistics about Mormons. “The bottom line for Mormons, …
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People: Issue 162
Resigning. JON HUNTSMAN, Jr., 50, after serving one year as U.S. ambassador to China. The son of billionaire businessman and philanthropist JON HUNTSMAN and grandson of LDS Apostle DAVID B. HAIGHT, Huntsman is reportedly exploring a 2012 Republican presidential bid. Excised. FRED HUNTING, who played the part of the apostle John in the 1991 temple …
The Family Forum: Passing on the Shame
By Michael Farnworth We can be active in the Church, attend the temple, pay our tithing, read the scriptures, have Family Home Evening, pray, and teach our children the doctrines of the Kingdom but, without knowing it, we can still be mean-spirited, petty, manipulative, demeaning, and hostile when disciplining our children. Take me for example: …
Braving the Borderlands: Protecting and Strengthening Your Marriage
By D. Jeff Burton During the past month, I have exchanged emails with “Will” (not his real name), a professional with a young family, concerning his movement into the Borderlands and the troubles he has confronted. While reading his responses to my standard questionnaire, I saw that Will’s marriage was suffering the stresses common to …